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...long-range music advisor of the orchestra, and he hoped to modernize the repertory. This season Mehta sandwiched a few more or less contemporary works in with the normal rich diet of Haydn, Beethoven and Brahms. A Bartok violin concerto, a Hindemith symphonic piece, Robert Starer's Samson Agonistes and a piano concerto by Alberto Ginastera all appeared on the programs. Mehta even worked in Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, though its jagged musical qualities are rather daring by Israeli standards. The players were happy to get away from the old warhorses, but the management was troubled...
Dalila, for example, asked Samson in stodgy Elizabethan English "Wherewith if thou wert bound thou couldst not break loose?" Now she says, "Tell me how you may be bound so as to be kept helpless." In the N.A.B.'s New Testament, the account of Paul's trip to Rome (Acts 27) turns out to be a brisk, realistic shipwreck saga. Too many Bible tales, Sloyan says, had become "sublime accounts more befitting gods than...
Moral Dilemma. In Philadelphia, the Rev. Paul Washington, black rector of the Episcopal Church of the Advocate and a man on good terms with many militants, calls the attacks on police "a kind of Samson syndrome" among individuals who find themselves without hope but can ventilate their sense of frustration by blindly striking back. Last spring a TIME-Louis Harris survey discovered that 40% of blacks between 14 and 21 felt that violence was probably necessary to win their rights; far fewer of their elders agreed. As a whole, the black community seems to oppose guerrilla fighting against the police...
...great scene III, XI. for he was clamorous and brutal. This is the still moment of shame. The tone should be lyrical self-examination, during the exhaustion of shame through to the reassertion of resolve. It is the tone of Achilles by the sea, of the first speeches of Samson Agonistes. Volume is not anger, humiliation, or passion. The voice of beauty is quiet, intense. Mr. Snyder delivered a surfeit of apostrophes, read too many end-stopped lines, and tended to pause too long on the caesturas. But Miss Yakutis perfectly captured Cleopatra's shock at her power to lead...
...feed from John Ince. Phil Zuckerman put the Crimson ahead, 2-0 but Penn retaliated quickly on goals by Chris Bastis and High Samson. Late in the half sophomore Nick Sullivan gave the Crimson a 3-2 lead, but once again. the Quakers tallied a minute later to tie the game and end the first-half scoring...